Fancy Funky Fold Friday

Welcome to another edition of Funky Fancy Folds. Today I am playing with the Vertical S fold card. I adapted the fold to be A2 size using the tutorial from Beccy’s Place.

My card design was inspired by playing along at the Stampin’ Up! Only challenge #SUOC385 case the designer Cindy. 

I chose this card from her blog - so many excellent choices to CASE.

Over at Sweet Stampin’ are challenging to play with dies so I chose to play with my Smowflake Kisses dies.

Stampin’ Fancy Friday has a Sparkle and Shine challenge this month - no need to ask me twice added lots of gold foil and sparkly embellishments.

Love how it’s come together!

Happy Stampin’
Margaret 
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Throwback Thursday Summer By the Sea

Welcome to another edition of Throwback Thursday - a chance for me to pull out some old favourites from my stash.

I’m playing along with Try a Sketch on a Tuesday #TSOT679 to use Oodles of Doodles use doodles anywhere on your stamp set which helped me choose to pull out my By the Seaside stamp set. 

Also playing along with their sister challenge Double Trouble to use not only the s doodles but to add layers and a sentiment.

Over at TGIF challenges I was inspired by the clouds in #tgif543 mood board. Well whom kidding also inspired me to crave a donut but I don’t have a donut stamp set 🤣

The As You See It colour and mood board challenge #AYSI357 inspired me to incorporate a sunset using the colours in the prompt.

I love playing with old and new so incorporated my Prairie Grass stamp set into the design.

Love the here for you through any storm vibes of the imagery and cloudy day by the sea vibes in this design so I chose the ‘my shoulder is yours’ sentiment. Think this would also be a great anniversary card too with less of the cloudy storm brewing. 

Happy Stampin’

Margaret 

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Fabulous Fall

Happy Wednesday! It’s officially Fall now so it’s officially time to get our pumpkin on! 

Today’s card design was inspired by playing along over at Inspired By challenge #IB354 mood board of pumpkins and the accompanying grid sketch that prompted me to bring out an old Cuttlebug embossing folder from my stash.

The Fall vibes from the mood board over at Just Us Girls #JUG793. Yay more pumpkins!

My colour palette was inspired by the Colour Dare challenge #CDC670. I’ve chosen Crushed Curry, Cloud Cover and Old Olive.

My custom made sentiment was inspired by Just Add Ink challenge #JAI769 to use numbers and words. I used the Grateful from Acorny Thank You partially stamped and the 4 U from a retired alphabet stamp set.

I’m also playing with my Fall Fest retired stamp sets from my Stampin’ Up! Stash and the retired sprig punch. 

My final result is a cute little Grateful 4 U card.

Happy Stampin’ 

Margaret 

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Technique Tuesday - Emboss Resist

For today’s edition of Technique Tuesday I am playing with the Emboss resist. I have chosen to play with my Prairie Grass stamp set as it’s perfect for showcasing this technique.

I am also playing along with the Case-Ing Tuesday #CT530 over on Facebook where we case a card from the catalog from Stampin’ Up! 

My colour palette was chosen from the Hand Stamped Sentiments challenge #HSS472 of Pretty Peacock, Darling Duckling and Timid Tiger.

I love how gorgeous this technique works allowing that pop of white to shine through against the vibrant background. Perfect for an I’m here for you card! 

This sketch was a lot of fun to play with. There’s something extra therapeutic about tearing your pretty paper - it’s like a message of contradiction in the brain being faced from your childhood teachers saying that you don’t tear paper and now has been won by the adult brain saying go ahead I can do whatever I want now I’m an adult 🤣

Have you used paper tearing in your paper crafting design? 

If you haven’t done the Emboss Resist it’s one of the easier techniques that gives a lot of WOW factor. 

All you need is your stamp, white paper of coloured inks of choice plus a Versamark or other brand of sticky ink pad, clear embossing powder and a heat gun. A anti static powder is also handy as it prevents the powder from sticking to any fingerprint reside from handling your papers. I also keep a small paint brush with my embossing supplies for if the anti static powder wasn’t enough to delicately brush away stray powder I don’t want on the paper. 

So use your anti stick powder over the paper, stamp your image in versamark onto the paper, sprinkle with embossing powder and shake off excess. I love using a coffe filter to catch my excess to be able to easily pour back into my powder pot. Use the heat gun to set the powder. Make sure it’s all turned shiny and fully set. I usually heat from the back first so that it’s less likely to blow off my powder on me. Than I do a second time over the front.  Once your powder is set you can blend colour with sponge or brush or use a brayer to add colour over top of your image as desired and than use a paper towel to clean off the embossed areas to reveal your white pop of wow 🤩 than finish your card design! 

Happy Stampin’

Margaret

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Making Memories and More on Monday

Today’s edition of Making Memories and More on Monday’s is inspired by the AAA Colourful colour themed challenges Colourboard #20 for my colour palette. Black Berry Bliss, Old Olive, Pumpkin Pie and Basic Black.

My layout was inspired by the Scrap A Sketch Autumn challenge sketch and the choose at least 5 from the word prompts over on Facebook. 

I’ve  2+ photos over my double layout, stamping, fussy cutting, 4 patterned papers, ink, leaves, sequins, pumpkins, orange and green.

I’m playing with some retired Halloween and Fall stamps, sprig punch, Old Olive, Pumpkin Pie ink pads and Blends markers.

My left page is a traditional 12 x 12 layout using the sketch as a page map. The Wicked Fun DSP was fun to pull out and play with for another layout and thankfully BlackBerry Bliss is a close match for the retired Rich Razzleberry. The Jar of Haunts and Fall Fest made some cute ephemera accents. Bit of fussy cutting but well worth the outcome! 

My right page is a retired 12 x 12 pocket page from Stampin’ Up! former Project Life era! I had fun stamping and decorating the 4x3 panels. The 4x6 slots will house 4 photos.

This layout is going to honour the photos of our granddaughter from a previous Halloween - yes I have fallen very behind in my scrapbooking.

We’ve always loved Halloween and definitely love experiencing it again through a child’s excitement. 

What’s your favourite thing about Halloween? 

Happy Stampin’

Margaret 

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Slimline Sunday meets Snowflakes

This week’s Slimline Sunday card was inspired by Freshly Made Sketches #FMS704. I just loved the circles I immediately envisioned Bokeh vibes. I stretched the sketch to be slimline and turned to be landscape to fill the space.

Over at Inspire.Create stamping challenges #IC201 was inspired to use Blues and Greens. I have chosen to play with Pool Party and Soft Sea Foam.

Sweet Stampin’ has the prompt to use dies so I am playing with my Sunshine Kisses Dies.

Also playing with Greetings for You ephemera and Iredescent Faceted Gems.

I wanted to keep my design clean and simple so opted to create a DIY Bokeh background using masking techniques and a DIY stencil using window sheets and circle dies.

My sentiment was chosen from Greetings for you ephemera was a little starker white than I wanted against the snowflakes so I blended it with some Soft Sea Foam.

The added iridescent faceted gems add a pop of shimmer. I love the finished product!

Have you attempted to embrace the Slimline style? I admit A2 is my default go too but I am enjoying pushing myself outside that comfort with the slimline and fancy folds cards. 

Happy Stampin’

Margaret

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Scrappy Saturday - Fall - it’s time to celebrate 🎉

Happy Scrappy Saturday - had a lot of fun putting my layout together.

Playing with the autumn challenges over in the Scrap A Sketch group over on Facebook. Providing both a sketch as well as an inspiration list to get the mojo flowing!

I’ve picked the stamping / ink/ Wink a Stella glitter / leaves / metallic paper / gems / hues of brown. 

Over at Lasting Memories they had a challenge to use stripes in your layout. #LM767.

I’ve chosen to play with the Peaceful Garden DSP, the Prairie Grass stamp set, the Beautiful Butterflies stamp set and Embossing Folder, the Mini Corrugated embossing folder for my stripes,  the Alphabet A La Mode dies, Earthen Metallic foil paper and the Streaked Dots and some Wink a Stella glitter all from my Stampin’ Up! collection. 

Love the colour combo of blue and brown - it’s so tranquil.

Left side of my layout is a traditional 12x12 layout using the sketch - I followed fairly closely with the layout. I love playing with sketches as it’s like putting a puzzle together but you get to decide what pieces to play with. 

My right side of the double page layout is pocket style - I love the two tone cardstock with embossing and the sanding technique to reveal the inner core. The 4x6 pockets will house photos. 

I can’t wait to add some Fall Photos to complete the layout. 

Happy Stampin’

Margaret 

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